#FindsFriday a late #Bronzeage #sword from Kostryzyn with a very interesting crown-like ribbon around the hilt. I know this crown shaped pattern from early #ironage neckrings in Denmagk, but this sword is much earlier.
Reverse of a Norican silver coin from the hoard found at the Malta valley, 100 BCE - ~1 CE, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte
#FindsFriday: `The issuing authorities of the Norican coins were probably individual #Celtic princes who had the requisite silver at their disposal. These coins were not yet used as a means of payment in everyday life, but were more likely to have served as […]
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Obverse and reverse of a Norican silver coin from the hoard found at the Malta valley; 100 BCE - ~1 CE, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
#FindsFriday #Celtic: `Under the influence of the Mediterranean civilizations, around the middle of the second century BC the Celts of the eastern Alpine region also began to mint their own coins. Two separate coinages can be distinguished: West Norican (Noric) and East Norican (Tauriscan).
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Obverse and reverse of a Norican silver coin from the hoard found at the Malta valley; 100 BCE - ~1 CE, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
#FindsFriday #Celtic: `Under the influence of the Mediterranean civilizations, around the middle of the second century BC the Celts of the eastern Alpine region also began to mint their own coins. Two separate coinages can be distinguished: West Norican […]
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Large silver coins found at the Malta valley; 100 BCE - ~1 CE, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
#FindsFriday: `As mercenaries, #Celtic warriors travelled widely and brought back foreign money to their native regions, where they subsequently began to mint their own coinage.`
Source: kärnten.museum
Anglo-Saxon Chalice, Hexham Abbey. The chalice was found in 1860 in a coffin whilst a trench was being dug. It was probably used with a portable altar by monks travelling to administer the sacrements.
#FindsFriday
Cotswold Cock type Iron Age coin depicting a Moon Head with pellted crescents for hair and a horse facing left on the reverse, cockerel's head below, The Trustees of the British Museum (FindID 621103), CC BY-SA 2.0
#FindsFriday #Celtic: `A silver #IronAge coin; a silver unit with no inscription from the Western region attributed to the Dobunni. The coin is a 'Cotswold Cock' type and dates from about 50-25 BC, Haselgrove Period II, Phase 6. There is a "moon" head right on […]
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Cotswold Cock type Iron Age coin depicting a Moon Head with pellted crescents for hair and a horse facing left on the reverse, cockerel's head below, The Trustees of the British Museum (FindID 621103), CC BY-SA 2.0
#FindsFriday #Celtic: `A silver #IronAge coin; a silver unit with no inscription from the Western region attributed to the Dobunni. The coin is a 'Cotswold Cock' type and dates from about 50-25 BC, Haselgrove Period II, Phase 6.
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📷 my own. The Burnley Gold Torc is a rare Iron Age neck-ring (c. 200 BC–AD 100) discovered in 1802 during ploughing in Lancashire, characterized by its twisted design. Although found in North West England, its style links it to southeastern British traditions, and it is currently held at the Manchester Museum. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349319961_Lamb_AW_2020_An_Iron_Age_Torc_from_Burnley_Lancashire_Transactions_of_the_Lancashire_and_Cheshire_Antiquarian_Society_112_182-201#:~:text=Abstract%20and%20Figures,broader%20regional%20and%20national%20frame.
Torc of twisted gold, Iron Age, 200BC-AD100.
Discovery method: Ploughing in 1802, Burnley, Lancashire
On loan from Manchester Museum.
#FindsFriday
#FindsFriday as it's #Easter.
The famous 'acrostic' believed by many to be an early #Christian coded message. The words, which read the same both across, down and backwards, are scratched onto a piece of 2nd century wall plaster.
#Corinium museum. 📸 My own
#History #writing
The arrival of #Christianity in #Wales
Pewter dish inscribed with a Chi Rho- the first two letters of Christs name in Greek
Found in 1906, in a house near the forum basilica, within a large urn with another pewter vessel in #Caerwent
#RomanBritain
#Archaeology
#GoodFriday #FindsFriday
A ceramic drinking vessel in the shape of a donkey's head, ears folded back, mouth open with tongue lifted. Top part of vessel has red figured decoration on black, and a black handle is attached under the donkey's chin. These vessels were designed so that they couldn't really be set down while they were filled.
#FindsFriday
Full of individual character, this stylish donkey head drinking vessel stands out among the scores of artefacts in the 5th C BC tomb of a man in necropolis of Melfi, Puglia.
The red-figured terracotta rhyton is of typical of Attic production. 🏺
3/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Friday
#FluoriteFriday
#FossilFriday
#VolcanoFriday
#FortressFriday
#FindsFriday
#FragmentFriday
#FlintFriday
#VikingFriday
#RomanRoadsFriday
#PharaohFriday
#PhoenicianFriday
#PhallusFriday (Archaeology only)
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Its #FindsFriday! This Late Bronze Age Clay Plaque or tile was recovered from Power Station Road, Sheppey in the late 1990's. The exact function of these are unclear with archaeologists arguing for light industry like bronze smelting, salt making or other kiln functions as well as bread making!
A monochrome image of 11 bone tools with shaped points, with a label and scale
For #FindsFriday a picture of prehistoric bone implements from the Great Orme copper mines, Llandudno, recovered by Duncan James half a century ago in 1976. The mines have therefore been known to be pre-Roman for at least as long as this. From my father's photo album.
A large oval jug being held by gloved hands. It is decorated with concentric circles and lines in black and red.
A Cypro-Geometric barrel jug from the Cypriot Iron Age.
Just stunningly beautiful!
#FindsFriday #LeedsDiscoveryCentre
#FindsFriday
The Bluebell Wood cup and ring stone.
Found in woods near Langley House #Glasgow. The motifs on this sandstone boulder are thought to date to the #BronzeAge and may represent astronomical phenomena.
On display at Kelvingrove Museum. 📸 mine
A decorated gold torc in Norwich Museum
‘Celtic’ art motifs (la Tene) on the gold tubular torc from snettisham
Red inlay and la tene swirls decorating a terret ring (used to guide chariot reins) - the terret is made of bronze and is now green as a result of oxidising
Half of a reconstruction of an Iron Age chariot with wicker hurdle sides and a wheel at the front. This is part of a virtual riding experience for children in Norwich museum
#findsfriday - the extraordinary gold tubular torc from Snettisham now on display in Norwich. You could spend hours here just in the Boudicca gallery with all of its incredible Iron Age material see @tessmachling.bsky.social bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/02/04/a... #torc #ironage #celts #boudicca
This extraordinary, striking Roman glass bowl is made with the millefiori (or thousand flowers) method. Its decoration looks to me like hundreds of little sea anemones or coral.
It dates to the 1st century AD.
🏛️📷 Thorvaldsen Museum
#FindsFriday
A pot shard with black Egyptian lettering and diagrams on, held on a museum stand
Windows needed urgently!
"Four of this type exactly. Exactly! But hurry, hurry, by tomorrow!"
The writer provided a helpful diagram - notice the little man with his arms up denoting height!
Egyptian hieratic script on a pot shard, c.1200 BC
📸 Me
#FindsFriday #archaeology🏺
#FindsFriday! This perfect Early Bronze Age plano-convex knife, carefully knapped from flint, was recovered during CFA Archaeology’s excavations in West Yorkshire. Knives like this are often associated with collared urn cremation burials, although ours was found on its own.
Friday
#FallFriday
#FashionFriday
#FaustianFriday
#FeatheredFriday
#FerrousFriday
#FictionFriday
#FindsFriday
#FingerpostFriday
#FishFriday
#FlowersOnFriday
#FolkyFriday
#FollowFriday or #FF
#FontsOnFriday
#FootpathFriday
#FootwearFriday
#ForestFriday
#FossilFriday
Bronze figure of Capricorn (half goat half sea creature) in a Somerset Museum display case
Bronze Roman figure of Capricorn found in the Mendips, now in the Museum of Somerset. Unusual in that it’s about a foot long. Symbol of the 2nd Augusta Legion so probably had a ceremonial use
#FindsFriday
For #FindsFriday, & #OTD
3rd April 2005
We have a Neolithic axe head. Complete with some recent damage. 79mm long. 39mm wide. 18mm thick.
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🪨A Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age c.2,500-1,600 BC dark brown translucent flint flake plano-convex blade/knife 61x31mm. Dorsal side has small amount of cortex at distal end, ventral surface pronounced blub of percussion at proximal end. #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology
Coin with a loop for use as a pendant showing the Western Roman Emperor Honorius, 395 - 423 CE.
Coin with a loop for use as a pendant showing the emperor with a labarum and with his foot on a captive.
Roman gold coin pendant
Found Sutton Hoo, Suffolk
Evidence for lingering prestige of Roman Empire. 🤔
The gold was not melted down in the 7th Century, the coin was kept & refashioned into a pendant.
The coin depicts the Western Roman Emperor Honorius, 395 - 423 CE.
#FindsFriday #Roman #AngloSaxon
Detail from the ‘Kirkburn Sword’ which was discovered in 1987 as part of an Iron Age burial at Kirkburn in East Yorkshire. Now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Prehistory #Yorkshire
For an early #FindsFriday, the staggeringly beautiful Lycurgus Cup. Roman, c300s AD.
It is the only known complete example made from a type of glass known as dichroic, which changes colour when held up to the light.
This #FindsFriday I’ll mainly be channelling this wonderful Medusa antefix (roof adornment).
Thought to ward off evil forces and protect the building💥
Terracotta, Taranto 550-500 B.C.E.
📸 Us, Allard Pierson Museum. Amsterdam.
#Archaeology #AncientBluesky #Roman #Classicsbluesky #AncientRome
